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FACULTY AWARD: Oates wins Blue Met Literary Grand Prize

Posted March 28, 2012; 11:52 a.m.

by Staff

Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor of Humanities and professor of writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, has won the Blue Metropolis International Literary Grand Prize for 2012 that honors a lifetime of literary achievement. The prize is given annually by the Blue Metropolis Foundation and has an award of $10,000. Oates will receive the award in Montreal on April 21, 2012.